[Advaita-l] RE: Advaita-l Digest, Vol 45, Issue 23

[Anbu sivam2]

The entitlement to Sanyasa that is confined to Brahmins is a Vedic-smartha
tradition followed in all the Shankara Maths.  I suppose these traditions
get their confirmation on the Purushartha enunciated for each varna as given
in the phalasruthi of Vishnu Sahasranamam "Vedantako brahmanasyath,
kshathriyo vijayeebhaveth, vaisyo dhana sammrudhasyaat sudra
sukamavaapnuyaath."
I find Dr. Braja Kishore Swain is in conformity with my view vide
http://orissagov.nic.in/e-magazine/Orissareview/jul2005/engpdf/orissa_vaishansim_under_joga_cult.pdf
.


With Narayanasmrithi,
Anbu


On 1/29/07, Krishnamurthy Ramakrishna <puttakrishna at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> pranAms sri anbu ji,
> I am unable to understand where Krishna has told Arjuna that he is
> not entitled to sanyAsa in the second chapter? He only said, your duty is
> to
> fight! The message in gIta is progressive. After doing karma one
> progresses
> to karma yOga (3rd chapter); The fifth chapter is devoted to karma
> sanyAsa,
> when one has graduated from karma yOga (Arjuna was not ready for sanyAsa;
> his vishAda - despondency in first chapter is testimony to this;
> Recognizing
> this, as a well wisher Krishna asked him to fight). sanyAsa is not
> necessarily declaring so. sanyAsa is abandoning kartritva - doership.
> However, abandoning doership is almost impossible where fruits are
> expected
> via a sankalpa. sanyAsa offers a path where a formal expectation of fruit
> via a sankalpa is rejected.
> Please quote the source where only brahmins are entitled to sanyAsa is
> said?
> If a sanyAsi is beyond varNa, why the restriction on sanyAsa for brahmins
> only?
> Hari OM
> K. Ramakrishna.
>
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>
> The answer is a firm NO.  Note that Bhagavan Ramana gave his mother Moksha
> and there stands a 'Maathrubutheswara Temple' on her samadhi.
>
> Sanyasa Ashrama is part of Varnasrama Dharma where only the Brahmins are
> entitled to Sanyasa.  I want to remind here that Krishna points out to
> Arjuna that he is not entitled to Sanyasa in the second chapter of
> Bhagavat
> Geetha.  In fact it is only reasonable to infer that the concept of Dharma
> is societal and all varnas have respective role in society without which
> the
> society would collapse.  A brahmin who takes up sanyasa would immediately
> lose his varna status. A Sanyasi is considered beyond Varna.
>
> With Narayanasmrithi,
> Anbu
>
> On 1/29/07, K.Sankarasubramanian(Finance/TVS-E) <
> k.sankarasubramanian at tvs-e.in> wrote:
> >
> > I have a query to pose to the learned members here.. Is there any
> > compulsion in the sastras for everyone to get into Sannyasa Ashrama ?
> > Can we not get Moksha without going through the Sannyasa Ashrama ? If
> > Sannyasa Ashrama is a compulsion, what about ladies ? Pl let me know if
> > there is any such Sannyasa Ashrama for ladies.
> >
> > KSS/29.01.2007
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